Six Days in Fallujah Triggers Outrage

[Pendragon]

The inevitable outrage against Konami's Six Days in Fallujah, an game in development based on the 2004 battle against insurgents in the Iraqi city, has already begun.

Announced yesterday, Six Days in Fallujah will be a realistic "survival horror" game based on the real-life battle of Fallujah that puts players in the role of a U.S. Marine fighting to clear the city of Iraqi insurgents. The game is being developed by Atomic Games with the assistance of numerous veterans of the conflict and will present the battle in a more realistic light than usual, offering "insight" into the reality of war both through the game itself and in interviews with Marines who took part in the conflict that will be interspersed throughout.

But that sort of documentary approach isn't adequate for some observers, who are calling the game "crass and tasteless," according to a report by the Daily Mail. Reg Keys, whose son Thomas was a Royal Marine killed in Iraq in 2003, said the game "glorified" the war in Iraq and showed "very poor judgment and bad taste."

"It is particularly crass when you consider what actually happened in Fallujah. These horrific events should be confined to the annuls of history, not trivialized and rendered for thrill-seekers to play out, over and over again, for ever more," he said. "It's entirely possible that Muslim families will buy the game, and for them it may prove particularly harrowing. Even worse, it could end up in the hands of a fanatical young Muslim and incite him to consider some form of retaliation or retribution. He could use it to get worked up and want to really 'finish the game'."

"I will be calling for this game to be banned, if not worldwide then certainly in the UK," he added.

Similar sentiments were expressed by the Stop the War Coalition, albeit for very different reasons. "The massacre carried out by American and British forces in Fallujah in 2004 is amongst the worst of the war crimes carried out in an illegal and immoral war," spokeswoman Tansy Hoskins told TechRadar. "It is estimated that up to 1,000 civilians died in the bombardment and house to house raids carried out by invading troops. So many people were killed in Fallujah that the town's football stadium had to be turned into a cemetery to cope with all the dead bodies."

The article continues here (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90759-Six-Days-in-Fallujah-Triggers-Outrage)

[SiCDude4Him]

Yeah, just more lies and made-up stats crap from the liberal loony left. What's new. Notice how many of them said they were there...oh, none?

Massacre? Hmmm I seem to remember going out of the way to make only those who wanted a fight stayed. And a fight they got.

For months the creeps hid behind women and children attacking coalition forces. Finally, the op was set into motion to clear the city of the creeps once and for all. They died. So, when you see the liberals creeps protecting the terrorist creeps makes you wonder what in the world they are thinking.

Football field? Oh yeah, since terrorists suck beyond all recognition at open warfare yeah it is safe to say our forces could fill a football stadium with the dead idiots. They were not civilians as the liberal loony left would want people to think.

[Misnomer]

Yeah, just more lies and made-up stats crap from the liberal loony left. What's new. Notice how many of them said they were there...oh, none?

Massacre? Hmmm I seem to remember going out of the way to make only those who wanted a fight stayed. And a fight they got.

For months the creeps hid behind women and children attacking coalition forces. Finally, the op was set into motion to clear the city of the creeps once and for all. They died. So, when you see the liberals creeps protecting the terrorist creeps makes you wonder what in the world they are thinking.

Football field? Oh yeah, since terrorists suck beyond all recognition at open warfare yeah it is safe to say our forces could fill a football stadium with the dead idiots. They were not civilians as the liberal loony left would want people to think.

And it begins.

[Timber]

I have to agree the games a bit in bad taste. Being that the war is still going on, and our boys are still dying over there. But I thing it would be easier to swallow if the war wasn't so fresh in everybody's mind. IMO

[Desert Eagle]

What would make this game any different then any other First Person Shooter style game based off real events? Nothing I would say.

I am glad the liberal bunny huggers are outraged, more press equals more people buying the game to see what the hype is all about.

I personally like this statement in the article:

"It's entirely possible that Muslim families will buy the game, and for them it may prove particularly harrowing. Even worse, it could end up in the hands of a fanatical young Muslim and incite him to consider some form of retaliation or retribution. He could use it to get worked up and want to really 'finish the game'."

If that was the case, I guess since my grandfather was killed in Operation Market Garden in Holland and after playing a slew of Medal of Honor and Call of Duty games that I should return to Germany and want some form of retaliation or retribution and finish the game .

[GaSplat]

I got to admit that anything about Somalia used to bother me. With passage of time, I'm getting over it (not forgetting, just accepting). But just because I don't want to play it doesn't mean I would try to block others.

Time does make this kind of thing less emotional, but the reactions calling to ban the game are pure stupid.

And OBTW, it's good to remind people that war is hell. Then maybe we can be more selective about what constitutes a good cause. Somalia was bullshit good feeling liberal horse crap. Those people weren't ready to take care of themselves and may not for years to come. We wasted good lives.

So ok, maybe I am still pissed off about that place. ;)